Data Quality Business Analyst

Frontline Source Group - Nationwide Staffing & Executive Search; Dallas (TX); Sur place; USD 85 000 - 115 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Frontline Source Group - Nationwide Staffing & Executive Search seeks a Data Quality Business Analyst on a 1099 contract to support annual tax reporting and filing. You will collaborate with finance, technology, and vendors to ensure accurate reporting data and timely filings.

The role emphasizes data validation, issue resolution, and process improvement with strong emphasis on testing and documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business-related field.
• 3+ years in business/data analysis or tax reporting.
• Experience with data validation and reconciliations.
• Strong requirements gathering and process documentation background.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Proactive problem-solving and accountability.
• Able to work in deadline-driven environments with shifting priorities.

Responsabilités

• Review 1099 reporting data for completeness and accuracy.
• Analyze data from multiple sources to find data-quality issues.
• Document discrepancies and coordinate resolution with stakeholders.
• Gather information, clarify questions, monitor task completion.
• Collaborate with finance and tech to validate data and file outputs.
• Document requirements, data definitions, and processes.
• Coordinate with external vendors on specs, testing, and filing.
• Develop and execute test scenarios; track and retest defects.
• Perform reconciliations and quality checks before filing.
• Maintain issue logs, testing docs, and project status reports.
• Communicate findings and risks to stakeholders.
• Identify recurring issues and propose sustainable controls.

Connaissances

3+ years of business analysis

Data validation & reconciliation

Requirements gathering

Process documentation

Testing & defect management

Excel skills

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Written & verbal communication

Problem-solving / initiative

Deadline-driven collaboration

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

1099 reporting / tax reporting

Accounts payable / vendor reporting

Oracle Fusion / NetSuite / Workday

SharePoint Online / Smartsheet

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or related field

Outils

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Oracle Fusion

NetSuite

Workday

SharePoint Online

Smartsheet

Description du poste

Data Quality Business Analyst - Contract Opportunity

We are seeking a detail-oriented 1099 Data Quality Business Analyst for a contract opportunity supporting annual tax reporting and filing activities. This individual will work with finance, technology, business stakeholders, and an external filing vendor to ensure reporting data is accurate, complete, and submitted within required deadlines. This is a contract opportunity through March 2027.

The ideal candidate has strong analytical skills, experience with data validation and reconciliation, and the ability to identify discrepancies, coordinate issue resolution, and support testing and production filing activities. This role will also contribute to process documentation, requirements gathering, defect tracking, and continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen data quality and reporting controls.

Responsibilities

• Review 1099 reporting data for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with applicable reporting requirements.
• Analyze data from multiple sources to identify missing information, anomalies, duplicate records, calculation discrepancies, and other data-quality issues.
• Document discrepancies, assign follow-up actions, and coordinate with appropriate stakeholders to drive issues through resolution.
• Collaborate with business units to gather required information, clarify reporting questions, communicate expectations, and monitor completion of assigned activities.
• Partner with finance and technology teams to validate source data, system logic, calculations, file outputs, and end-to-end reporting processes.
• Gather and document business requirements, business rules, data definitions, process flows, and recommendations for process improvements.
• Coordinate with external vendors on file specifications, testing cycles, data validation, defect resolution, production readiness, and final filing activities.
• Develop and execute test scenarios, document results, track defects, retest corrections, and validate that solutions meet business requirements.
• Perform reconciliations and quality checks before files are released for testing or production filing.
• Maintain issue logs, action trackers, testing documentation, project status updates, and filing-readiness reports.
• Communicate findings, risks, decisions, and outstanding action items to business, finance, technology, and project stakeholders.
• Identify recurring data-quality issues, investigate root causes, and recommend sustainable controls and process improvements.
• Create and maintain process documentation, procedures, file specifications, testing evidence, and training materials.
• Manage assigned project activities and competing priorities to meet established testing, review, correction, and filing deadlines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or related field (or equivalent professional experience)
• 3+ years of experience in business analysis, data analysis, finance ops, accounting ops, tax reporting, or related
• Experience analyzing large and/or multi-source datasets, doing reconciliations, finding data-quality issues, and coordinating issue resolution
• Strong understanding of:
  • requirements gathering
  • process documentation
  • testing
  • defect management
  • implementation support
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills; able to manage multiple tasks/dependencies/deadlines
• Strong written and verbal communication (able to explain issues to technical + non-technical audiences)
• Demonstrated problem-solving, initiative, accountability; able to escal …
• Ability to collaborate in a deadline-driven environment and adapt to changing priorities

Preferred Skills

• SQL, Power BI, Tableau, or other data analysis/visualization tools (explicitly “a plus”)
• Experience with 1099 reporting, tax reporting, accounts payable, vendor reporting, regulatory reporting, or financial systems (explicitly “preferred”)
• Experience coordinating with third-party vendors on data exchange, testing, issue resolution, and production deliverables (explicitly “preferred”)
• Experience with Oracle Fusion, NetSuite, Workday, SharePoint Online, Smartsheet, or similar enterprise platforms (explicitly “a plus”)

Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate is analytical, organized, and proactive, with a strong focus on data accuracy and process improvement. They can work independently while coordinating effectively with multiple stakeholders, manage complex reporting activities, and help ensure timely, accurate, and reliable 1099 filing outcomes.